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Fortnite is coming to E3 2018 and its bringing 100 celebrities, professional athletes and top players along for the ride. They're calling the event the Fortnite Party Royale and, based on how popular the game has become in recent months, we imagine it's going to be pretty huge.

The U.K. isn't known for banning media. It's rare to hear about a piece of content being denied sale in the United Kingdom, and even rare that a video game is banned from sale in the country. Well, the U.K., just banned a game for the first time in over a decade.

One of the big selling points of most premium services these days is that there are free benefits thrown in to help improve the appeal of the subscription service. In the case of Amazon's Twitch Prime there are a bunch of free games being given away.

Sega's biggest franchise to date is still Sonic The Hedgehog. Despite having more missteps than hits with the blue speedster these days, Sega is still trucking onward and forward with new games and ideas, including a brand new racing title that hearkens back to the days of Sonic R.

Increasing accessibility for video games has been a target goal for many AAA publishers, including Sony, Ubisoft and Nintendo. Well, joining them is Electronic Arts, who has a new initiative to help make its titles more accessible to gamers.

Blizzard Entertainment revealed when gamers will finally be able to play as the newest hero for Overwatch. The character is currently available through the public-test realm, but soon she'll be available for everybody on the PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

Electronic Arts and DICE received lots of backlash over the implementation of the progression system in Star Wars: Battlefront II. The game was originally going to have a microtransaction-based premium loot box system, but EA scrapped it at the last minute. Well, EA and DICE are overhauling the system again and revealed how it was going to be done.

Venturing into a seldom explored corner of interactive entertainment, WarGames is a cross between a movie and a video game that invites the player to have an impact on the narrative by choosing where to focus each scene. It's an interesting concept, but the execution left me feeling less like a participant and more like a voyeur.

Twitch has been growing vastly in popularity since being acquired by Amazon over the last few years, but things have taken a drastic turn for the better after the rapper Drake hopped onto Twitch to check out Epic Games' Fortnite.

Bandai Namco previously teased gamers about possible roster additions that you didn't think would likely appear in Soul Calibur VI. Many gamers were able to piece together that it might be Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher series after CD Projekt Red also teased the possibility. Well, it's true... Geralt will be in Soul Calibur VI.

Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix are finishing off the origin story for Lara Croft later this year with the long-rumored release of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. After months and months and months of teases and speculation, the publisher finally revealed the game with a short teaser trailer.

June is fast approaching and that means E3 is just around the corner. A lot of major AAA publishers are gearing up to demonstrate top tier titles at the event, while major platform manufacturers like Microsoft will be utilizing the stage to give gamers an idea of what the future of the Xbox brand will look like.

Bandai Namco has teamed up with Square Enix for a little bit of cross-promotional content, which includes Final Fantasy XV's lead character, Notcis, making his fighting game debut in Bandai's prime-time 3D fighter, Tekken 7.

Microsoft is continuing to add and expand the Xbox One library of backwards compatible titles from the Xbox 360, including classic Tom Clancy games and a surprising Metal Gear Solid title that slid onto the Xbox 360 before Microsoft switched focus to the Xbox One.

If you're looking to play some old-school games on modern consoles, Sega is making that process as easy as possible thanks to a newly announced collection of 50-plus games in a single package. Get ready to go retro with Sega Genesis Classics for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Lara Croft's rebooted origin story is set to get a third and final chapter this fall, as a website for the game accidentally reveals details including the name and launch date. Get ready for Shadow of the Tomb Raider.